The poem's central situation
The poem's central situation
Frost's speaker recalls reaching a fork in a wood and having to choose between two roads. The roads work as an extended metaphor for life choices, but the poem does not present one route as clearly better than the other.
Step-by-step lessons on Oxford AQA IGCSE English Literature 2.1.4 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the poetry and unseen-text skills before moving on to the longer, comparison-heavy essay questions on the set prose and drama texts.